SMM is proud to offer the new dimension of the very popular Pike PERFECT, the EXTENDED TIP (ET) Perfect.

The ET tips slip on to the existing PERFECT center section and allow you to have a new cutting edge model.

We have tested the tips, and have seen they offer more flight time in dead air(more area), allow the model to range better due to increased aspect ratio, yet allow the model to launch and land as effortlessly as it always has.

Jo Grini of the NORWAY team who has campaigned the model with ET tips for this past year offers some very interesting and keen insight into the ET development. Here is what JoJo had to say.......

“Yes, I have been flying mostly ET tips all season. I am one of the few NOT exclusively flying them on a Super Light. Others have ordered ET tips only for SL while mine has been the all around Carbon 68 Perfect, my everyday fly-in-all-conditions model. The model is improved, from my perspective, dramatically.

I have won all I have entered in Nordic countries including Nordic Championship. I did very well with them in extremely tough and challenging conditions in Cyprus in the early season (I won that event), I placed 4th in the prestigious European Championships in F3J (the most important event in Europe this season) and was the highest placed Western European, something of which I am quite proud. It was all done with a single pair of ET Tips mounted stock on my trusted PERFECT. In other words it has been a very good season for me and my Perfect ET. Better turning performance. Better traction and more energy available. All around a new and improved Perfect. The new tips now makes it possible to "go back" to the standard joiners and it flies with no opposite aileron in the turns. It circles even tighter than before and tracks better straight ahead. Hang time seems good too.  So it seems the change did what it was supposed to. Get an even easier model to fly and make it bigger for the dead air days.  There should be no need for bigger elevator/rudder as Philip designed them 10% bigger than calculations said in the first place. And my testing Friday with backwards CG tells me it is big enough. In the competition I flew with CG 111mm with and without ballast.

I flew my ET tips all the time in CYPRUS. This was very big win for me,besting names like Primoz, Kolb, and Fiegel to name a few in the flyoffs! I had no problems flying far downwind and coming back in neutral or thermal when the conditions allowed. The Cyprus conditions were the most challenging of the season."

Thanks JoJo, I know this will help PERFECT pilots evaluate the advantages of the Perfect ET